November 19, 2013 at 4:02 pm. Van Damme's first box office bomb since he became a star was Double Team (1997), a buddy film with basketball superstar Dennis Rodman. Jean-Claude Van Damme (born 1960) is a Belgian martial artist, actor, and director best known for his martial arts action films. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town who steal Eddie's motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie a flame for revenge. The two hatch a plan to run off to America together. He made his directorial debut with the 1996 martial arts film The Quest and also directed the upcoming action drama Frenchy. The artwork, which depicts a younger incarnation of the Muscles from Brussels in one of his fighting poses from the movie Kickboxer, was commissioned to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Westland Shopping complex. In 2018, he returned to his role in Kickboxer: Retaliation, a sequel to the reboot. After a successful escape he gets involved as a fighter in a street fight gambling ring in order to support them. [70], Black Water (2018) is an action thriller film directed by Pasha Patriki. They make a clone of Garrotte from DNA evidence, who has genetic memories from Garrotte and a telepathic link to him. [4], Following three days of rehearsals, the stunt footage featuring van Damme was recorded in a single take. Make jean claude van damme split memes or upload your own images to make custom memes. He makes 3 friends and they watch each other's backs. [88][89] In the German version of the Donkey Kong 64 website, DK's greatest hero is Jean-Claude van Kong. He later explained that he was trying to communicate bits of his hard-earned wisdom to young uneducated people dreaming of success, like he used to be himself, and had to struggle with the time constraints of TV, with his difficulties reacquainting with the French language, and with the effects of jet lag, often resulting in a clumsy, haphazard delivery. Stallone finished by stating "Van Damme was too strong. [55][56][57] The fight was a focal point in his ITV reality show Behind Closed Doors. In the morning, the sky was blue [when I was] going to school, and to me, the sky was black. [66], On 13 November 2013, Volvo Trucks released an advertisement on YouTube that shows Van Damme doing the splits while perched with each of his feet on the outer rearview mirrors of one semi-trailer truck and one box truck moving backwards, which Van Damme describes in the commercial as "the most epic of splits". Aiding Quinn in his rescue is his flamboyant weapons dealer Yaz (Dennis Rodman). [10] At the age of 16, he took up ballet, which he studied for five years. I have not seen "We Die Young" so I am not going to put that film on this list. Jean-Claude Van Damme performs a full split between two moving trucks.November 2013. In 2013, he played the main villain in Enemies Closer, an American action thriller film directed and photographed by Peter Hyams, and starring Tom Everett Scott and Orlando Jones. ", "The Religion and political views of Jean-Claude Van Damme", "Van Damme (JCVD) - First ever screen appearance in 1979", "Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike vs Ummet Ozcan - The Hum ( Official Music Video )", "See Jean-Claude Van Damme Dance in Parking Lot in AaRON's 'Ultrarêve' Video", "Volvo Trucks - The Epic Split feat. In 1979, he had an uncredited role in André Delvaux's Woman Between Wolf and Dog, a Belgian-French drama film starring Marie-Christine Barrault, and Rutger Hauer. In The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008), he plays a border patrol agent up against a highly dangerous drug smuggling operation. The man who killed his wife buys off the judge and is found not guilty for lack of evidence. [19], Around that time he developed a friendship with action martial art film star Chuck Norris. [8], In December 2013, a parody was created apparently showing Chuck Norris as Walker, Texas Ranger performing a similar manovuer between two aircraft to the opening lines of Hamlet. The story takes place in Manilla, Philippines, where in planning to donate his kidney to his dying niece, Deacon, a former black-ops agent, awakes the day before the operation to find he is the latest victim of organ theft. That fell through as he had a prior deal for another game under the auspices of the Sega Genesis platform. However, it proves to be a fatal mistake. [4] In the film, Po and the Furious Five (heroes of the previous film) battle an evil peacock named Lord Shen, who has a powerful weapon that he plans to conquer China with. Some glimmer of hope came with his third trial with Gladys Portugues. Teugels was kicked in the nose and was unable to continue as a result. Many of the same cast returned as well as new ones such as Bryan Cranston, J. K. Simmons and Kate Hudson. He worked with John Hymans again on Dragon Eyes (2012), then appeared in commercials for Coors Light beer, showing him on a snow-covered mountain wearing a sleeveless denim jacket,[60] and for the washing powder Dash. His most notable action projects include Bloodsport (1988), Cyborg (1989), Kickboxer (1989), Lionheart (1990), Death Warrant (1990), Double Impact (1991), Universal Soldier (1992) and its theatrical sequel Universal Soldier: The Return (1999), Nowhere to Run (1993), Hard Target (1993), Timecop (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Sudden Death (1995), The Quest (1996), Maximum Risk (1996) and Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016–2017 series). Until Death (2007), also with Fellows. Things become personal when Stavros kidnaps Quinn's pregnant wife after his own lover and child were killed in an assassination attempt that went awry. [21] That same year he also had a role in the comedy short film Monaco Forever. Kim's father, Sun Quan (Yam), is a Chinese Triad. Desperately needing a new escape plan, Alain signs up for the French Foreign Legion, and is shipped to North Africa to help defend Morocco against a native Berber rebellion. Anderson had a financial dispute with the company, as well as the company parting ways with Weng Weng, and the project never materialized. Now removed from active duty, Darren has become demoted to being fire marshal for the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, where a gang of terrorists are holding U.S. Vice President and several other VIPs hostage in a luxury suite during a game. It co-stars Dave Bautista, Gina Carano, Georges St-Pierre and Darren Shahlavi. [46] Directed by Peter Hyams, the film was a huge success, grossing over $100 million worldwide, and remains his highest-grossing film in a lead role to date. Van Damme plays an American working overseas in Magnitogorsk, Russia. Mikael Rosell was the driver of the truck steering sideways. "[80], In 2008, actor Sylvester Stallone declared to the British magazine FHM that "At a party in my home in Miami in 1997, Van Damme was tired of Steven Seagal claiming he could kick his ass so he offered Seagal outside into my back yard." Flixxy editors search the internet daily, to find the very best videos for you: SELECTION: From over 300,000 videos uploaded to YouTube daily, Flixxy editors select only 1‑3 videos to be added to the site daily. The following year he starred in Derailed, co-starring Tomas Arana, Laura Harring, Dayton Callie, Nikolay Binev, etc. This film reunited him with his former Bloodsport co-star, Bolo Yeung and was very popular. [3] Actor Jean Claude Van Damme before doing his 'epic split' for Volvo. He was also named "Mr. Belgium" in a bodybuilding competition. This included testing, building a safety system to support Van Damme … The original video game Mortal Kombat was conceived as a fighting game based on Van Damme. Van Damme was a member of the Belgium Karate Team when it won the European Karate Championship on 26 December 1979 at La Coupe François Persoons Karate Tournament in Brussels. [2][3], The director was Andreas Nilsson. We are then informed that Dux is actually a real guy who totally did all that stuff in that tournament that totally existed. So when people come by here, it is not Jean-Claude van Damme but it's a guy from the street who believed in something. In 1991, Double Impact was released. In this film he stars as Rudy Cafmeyer a thief and smuggler of valuable historical artifacts. [58] December 2012, Van Damme was seen as part of Kam Sing's ring crew when Kam Sing fought against Jomhod Kiatadisak.[59]. In 1992, Van Damme starred in one of the biggest blockbusters of the year in the sci-fi action picture Universal Soldier directed by Roland Emmerich for Carolco. All the while, the camera is panning back to reveal Van Damme perched atop two Volvo trucks, which slowly pull away from each other, taking one of the actor's legs with it. Through his former commanding officer, he gets to work as a bodyguard for former World Heavyweight boxing champion and now successful businessman, where his adventure begins. [22][23] According to actor Nelson Anderson, that year the Filipino action film company Liliw Production received Van Damme's photos and were creating a film where Van Damme would have acted alongside their action leading men which included Anderson and Weng Weng. I still think the trucks drove forward and the shot was reversed…but the stunt was real and captured in one fluid shot. Van Damme did not appear in any of the film's four sequels, though he did return as a different character in the reboot series. "[81], In October 2011, Van Damme, along with other celebrities including Hilary Swank, Vanessa-Mae and Seal attracted criticism from human rights groups for attending an event in Russian federal subject Chechnya's capital Grozny on the 35th birthday of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov on 5 October. [4], One week after release, Epic Split had been viewed online 25 million times, and after nine days reached 40 million views. They eventually meet his character who helps them in their quest. Rudy's father is archaeologist and museum curator Oscar "Ozzie" Cafmeyer (Dobtcheff) is kidnapped upon an important archaeologist discovery.[48]. Music: 'Only Time' by Enya. [11] Seagal wanted none of it. However, Sun Quan is not alone in his attempts to avenge his wife, as a French mobster has a vendetta against him. [7] Some colour grading and removal of reflections and safety wires was done by The Mill during post-production. Because he felt like it, that’s why. In January 2017, Van Damme featured in an Ultra Tune television advert which was part of a controversial series of ads. Kickboxer: Vengeance is a 2016 American martial arts film directed by John Stockwell. Producer Mark Di Salle said he was looking for "a new martial arts star who was a ladies' man, [but Van Damme] appeals to both men and women. He played himself in the French film Narco (2005), he appears as an imagined version of himself, when one character who idolizes him as the ultimate 'Karate man', imagines a conversation where he acts as that character's conscience. He doesn't have a stuntman to do that. Only this time he plays the master and Alain Moussi plays the student on a quest to avenge his brother. Jean-Claude Van Damme tried his luck with marriage by starting with Maria Rodriquez in 1980. He plays Alain Moreau a French cop in Nice. Now Alain is mistaken for him, who was also mixed up in a series of affairs concerning the FBI and the Russian mafia. [37] The film started the Kickboxer franchise. Van Damme trained for four years and he earned a spot on the Belgian Karate Team; he later trained in full-contact karate and kickboxing with Dominique Valera.[14]. Are you serious bro? I was so sad."[97]. In the episode two of the leading ladies of the show meet him, and compete for his attention. See the tricky secret part behind the EPIC SPLIT - Van Damme Volvo Ad The two assassins reluctantly partner in order to combat corrupt Interpol agents and gangsters. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. Van Damme and Hyams re-teamed for Universal' on Sudden Death (1995). Van Damme then made his first sequel, Universal Soldier: The Return, (1999). [13] Five years later, the director of Epic Split, Nilsson, would go on to film a commercial for Toyota Tacoma pickups featuring the real Chuck Norris. [82] Human rights groups, who had urged the celebrities to cancel their appearances because of abuses carried out under Kadyrov, criticised the celebrities for attending the event. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was physically weak. Ringo Lam was the original director, but he left the project after a few weeks of filming in Canada. Van Damme plays a French Canadian-born firefighter with the Pittsburgh Fire Bureau who suffered a personal crisis after he was unable to save a young girl from a house fire. [14][15], Van Damme placed second at the Challenge Coupe des Espoirs Karate Tournament (1st Trials). After the success of Bloodsport, Cannon Films offered Van Damme the lead in Delta Force 2, American Ninja 3 or Cyborg, a cyperpunk martial arts film directed by Albert Pyun. She had a child with Darcy, his third, but still cheated on her. All of his victims are also mothers. Jean-Claude Van Damme isn't joking. The Associated Press reports that in the lawsuit, Dux said that Van Damme had promised him the credit, along with a portion of the profits. He starred in his own reality TV show Behind Closed Doors (2011). Time Magazine named Van Damme's performance in the film the second best of the year (after Heath Ledger's The Joker in The Dark Knight),[50] having previously stated that Van Damme "deserves not a black belt, but an Oscar."[51]. It was directed, written by and also starring Da Peng, alongside Mabel Yuan and Liu Yan. Hence he does not take a dive in the fight, but just as the escape plan is about to succeed, Alain's friend is killed, and Katrina is captured by Galgani's men. Ranking Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Best Splits. He followed it with Second in Command (2006), where he plays Commander Samuel "Sam" Keenan, a decorated U.S. Navy SEAL, is sent to the Eastern European nation of Moldavia to become the new security attaché at the U.S. Embassy. But Alain has shot and killed Galgani's brother. [13] As the camera pulls back eleven Commandos are seen balancing on the character's head in the shape of an illuminated Christmas tree. He's an American hero who fights for justice the American way and kicks the stuffing out of the bad guys. In Hell is a 2003 American prison action film directed by Ringo Lam. ", "Jean-Claude van Damme Biography (1960–)", "Jean-Claude van Damme unveils his statue in Belgium", "Standardized Tournaments And Ratings System Historic Kickboxing Ring Records", "King Of Kung Fu Presents: The Jean Claude Van Damme Interview", "Jean Claude van Damme: Behind The Public Image", "Jean-Claude Van Damme Reveals Why He Left 'Predator, "The muscles from Brussels - the story of Jean-Claude Van Damme | Worldation", "Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris training together", "NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER: An Endearing THE KARATE KID Clone", "NINJA: Hero or Master Fake? He was arrested for driving under the influence in 1999. According to reports, and Patrick Teugels' own interview (with photos), Teugels lost to Van Damme by TKO in the 1st round. 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